Sunday, May 06, 2007

I've put loads of clicakble links in this article. But they don't always show up that well. So any words you see below that are slightly discolored (on my screen they aren't even discolored until you click 'em — what's up with that?) are probably links. Most of the stuff IN ALL CAPS is a link. Check 'em out!

Also, there will be no Zazen class at Hill Street Center on Saturday May 12th cuz I will be in Japan.

AND, yesterday I got profiled for a story in the June issue of LA YOGA magazine. So look for that next month. They took loads of pictures and did a nice interview.

AND, an excerpt from SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! will appear in WHOLE LIFE TIMES magazine in June as well. WHOLE LIFE TIMES is an LA based mag. But they're also affiliated with CONSCIOUS CHOICE magazine in Chicago and Seattle, and with COMMON GROUND magazine in San Francisco. So I think the excerpt will appear in those magazines as well.

AND on Sunday May 20th at midnight I'll be a guest on the SUICIDE GIRLS RADIO SHOW on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure this is avialable on the Internets and as a Podcast as well if you're not in SoCal.

AND on May 23rd I'll be a guest on a radio show called THE GOOD LIFE with host JESSE DYLAN at 10:15 Pacific Time/1:15 Eastern. That's also on Sirius Sattelite Radio. My dad's got one of those in his car. So I hope he listens.

AND Saturday June 2nd, 2007 at 7 PM I'll be in Phoenix at the ARIZONA ZEN BUDDHIST SOCIETY giving A TALK (click for details & location). So be there or be square! I'm doing two other book signings in Phoenix on that Sunday (June 3rd) and Monday (June 4th). But I can't seem to find the details. I'll either revise this post or put up a new one when I get that info.

AND I'll be all over the San Francisco Bay Area the following week. Here's what's lined up so far:

I'll put up more details as I get them. Basically book signings tend to start at 7 PM, so I'm guessing that'll be the time for most of these. The After Dinner Talk is a regular thing at the SF Zen Center, so probably if you look on their website there'll be info.

I'm also working on possible gigs in Boulder, New York City, Akron and Montreal. So I'll let you know how that goes.

Brad, good news: you are currently on reddit.com. Posted noon sunday. just search zen from inside reddit. Any of you all registered can up vote the story. It links to a review of the first book on steve-olson.com

I got the book from Amazon as soon as it became available. I'm not quite sure what my reaction to it is yet, though I will tell you I thought it was too short. I think that's a good sign, since it means I wanted to keep on reading.

I will say the later chapters are better than the early ones, IMO. I especially liked your insights on control and the lack of it. That give me something to think about.

Anyway, to the extent that it's possible, given my hermit-like nature, I'll be talking up the book and encouraging people to buy and read it.

Hope you make it to NYC, would love to have you fix the typo in person. I have book already, pre order from Amazon and am reading it, slowly to make it last. But I could always buy a gift copy for a friend.